{"id":8320,"date":"2024-12-27T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/771036590454800384-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:26:33","slug":"771036590454800384-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/771036590454800384-2\/","title":{"rendered":"771036590454800384"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fmoney%2F2024%2F12%2F27%2Fliving-solely-on-social-security-she-ended-up-homeless%2F77104827007%2F&#038;t=NWE3NzY4MmEwMWRkMTNiN2YxYzYzNzk1N2MwM2M0ZDBlYzA4ZjRhNCw2ZmQwNWViMDE0NWU0OWY3OWVjMzhlZWJiZmM5ZjljMTllZjAwYzU0&#038;ts=1735316176\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fmoney%2F2024%2F12%2F27%2Fliving-solely-on-social-security-she-ended-up-homeless%2F77104827007%2F&#038;t=NWE3NzY4MmEwMWRkMTNiN2YxYzYzNzk1N2MwM2M0ZDBlYzA4ZjRhNCw2ZmQwNWViMDE0NWU0OWY3OWVjMzhlZWJiZmM5ZjljMTllZjAwYzU0&#038;ts=1735316176\",\"title\":\"Surviving on $1,800 a month in Social Security, she died looking for a place to live\",\"description\":\"The life and death of Joanne Erickson highlight the struggles of many seniors with little to no savings amid an unforgiving housing market.\",\"site_name\":\"USA TODAY\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"ea81768355e347c0e02e63e66a8fef6a:0419a6ad76c93a0c-5c\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":623,\"height\":352}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fmoney%2F2024%2F12%2F27%2Fliving-solely-on-social-security-she-ended-up-homeless%2F77104827007%2F&#038;t=NWE3NzY4MmEwMWRkMTNiN2YxYzYzNzk1N2MwM2M0ZDBlYzA4ZjRhNCw2ZmQwNWViMDE0NWU0OWY3OWVjMzhlZWJiZmM5ZjljMTllZjAwYzU0&#038;ts=1735316176\" target=\"_blank\">Surviving on $1,800 a month in Social Security, she died looking for a place to live<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cErickson\u2019s death highlights a deepening crisis for aging Americans who lack a safety net. In California, people over 55 are the fastest-growing group of unhoused individuals, with two million seniors struggling to afford housing, health care and other basic needs, with millions more nationwide. The problem is especially severe in high-cost metro areas in the West and Northeast, including Seattle, Denver and Boston, as well as in New York and Los Angeles. But housing costs outpace affordability for many seniors in areas including Dallas, Houston and Minneapolis-St. Paul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>_<\/p>\n<p>Opinion: I think you could live really comfortably in Thailand on $1,800 a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surviving on $1,800 a month in Social Security, she died &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[1513,1594,7954,2472,802,6040,10807,773,644,258,714,638,641,6937,640,10921,771,413,10386,303,5667,3886,218,10920,814],"class_list":["post-8320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-america","tag-american","tag-biden","tag-billionaire","tag-ceo","tag-democracy","tag-democrates","tag-employment","tag-greed","tag-job","tag-millionaire","tag-money","tag-poor","tag-republicans","tag-rich","tag-senior","tag-social-security","tag-taxes","tag-taxpayers","tag-thailand","tag-trump","tag-us-government","tag-usa","tag-welfare","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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